perplexed - Story 104628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Jessica was halfway through a bag of chips when she got the notification. Mr. Kim, her physics teacher, had followed her on Pinterest. She choked on a chip. Pinterest? What could that even mean?

She’d curated boards filled with fashion inspiration, travel destinations, and recipes. Nothing even remotely related to physics. She stared at the screen, bewildered. Was he trying to learn more about her? Or was it some weird attempt at relatability?

Her pulse quickened. She felt a strange pressure in her chest. She quickly navigated to his profile, eager to understand his motives. His boards were all about the planets, the universe, and quantum physics. Her stomach twisted into knots.

Emotion: perplexed

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -1.42 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.16

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion perplexed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 perplexed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the perplexed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the perplexed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤔`	0.330
`L`	0.300
`🤔`	0.296
`S`	0.273
`que`	0.264

Suppressed:

`மகி`	-0.227
`rest`	-0.222
`ecstatic`	-0.212
`alleviate`	-0.210
`uplifting`	-0.196